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Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Total Factor Productivity in Chinese Equipment Manufacturing Industry-An Analysis based on Three Spatial Weight Matrices

TANG Xiao-hua, CHEN Yang   

  1. School of Economics, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China
  • Received:2016-12-08 Online:2017-04-18

Abstract: Based on the comprehensive geographic distance factors, economic factors and nested weights, the paper makes an analysis of the total factor productivity of equipment manufacturing industry, which is closer to the objective facts, and estimates the temporal and spatial distribution characteristics of TFP in Chinese equipment manufacturing industry from 1999 to 2014 by using the SBM super-efficiency model, and three different spatial weight matrices: adjacency, economy, nesting, to distinguish characteristics of spatial agglomeration of different levels of production efficiency in Chinese equipment manufacturing industry. The results show that there is a large gap between the TFP of equipment manufacturing industry at the provincial level, and the eastern region is far ahead of the middle and western regions; the trend of change is mainly characterized by growth, among which, the central and western regions increased significantly but the eastern region declined; the equipment manufacturing industry has spatial positive correlation under the adjacency and economic weight, but has negative correlation tendencies under the nested weight, reflecting the weakening of geographical factors and the enhancement of economic factors; the three kinds of weights showed a slight difference in spatial agglomeration characteristics, and all had significant spatial optimization characteristics.

Key words: equipment manufacturing industry, TFP, spatial-temporal characteristics, spatial weight